It's like everyday, the walls of this lab are getting smaller and smaller
And the white coats and safety goggles are starting to suffocate me.
The various glass beakers are continuously reflecting the florescent lights
In strange directions and patterns that slowly bring my eyelids down.
Lab benches have this insatiable thirst for lysol and paper towels,
And my lab notebook is somehow filling itself with strange markings.
The stools have this habit of becoming the most uncomfortable place ever,
And the collection of viles with rancid contents all have crooked labels
Which my focus can't seem to escape from, crooked labels everywhere.
I love the information and knowledge, But the lifestyle that accompanies it,
I can't say I'm too fond of. It stretches beyond membrane shapes and structures,
To a place where reality borders the edge of a glass slide under a microscope.
So yeah COSMOS, it's honestly been really great and I know its just going to get greater with time. Just meeting new people everyday is so refreshing, and discovering things about the people I already knew is also equally refreshing. Just being engulfed in this world of laboratories has also been an amazing learning experience. I have this great interest in Math and Science, but by being in this lab, it's like I've come to realize more about who I really am and what I really like.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
massive update.
So I just realized that I haven't blogged since...my first time last week. Oops. I'll try to blog more often now to make up for that; now that I finally have my laptop (still bitter about the liars at FedEx and having to wait over the weekend for UCSD central mailing before getting my laptop, which is when I needed it most...>:[ ) and don't have to try cramming cluster homework in the hour, I'll be able to have time to blog more. Yay.
A lot has happened over this past week/weekend. A lot of it has already been mentioned it in other blogs though - Knott's Berry Farm was freaking awesome! Silver Bullet, Xcelerator (0 to 80 mph in 2 seconds, awesomeness), Boomerang, and especially the PONY EXPRESS (yay for awkward positions). The weird train lady was hilarious. What else...the days here are so packed and full of activities/work that the weekend feels like such a long time ago. The beach was awesome (successful jumping pictures on the first try!, "tanning", a very REVEALING ten fingers), and the jello fight was as sticky and messy as I expected but very very fun (yay for getting a mouthful of jello thrown into my face). So that's basically the quickest recap possible of the weekend. Very very exciting. OH. Also, although almost everyone else has already mentioned this, cosmolympics was totally RIGGED, but it's still very awesome that we owned the relay race by at least a good 5 seconds. Oh right, the cake decorating contest was quite amusing (second place for piling random junk onto a cake ftw). I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life. Crack. Haha.
Alright, moving to the more academic stuff. The labs have been interesting, and I am really enjoying how the labs here give us access to some top-notch equipment and resources, and that the assignments/basic environment of the labs require us to think outside the box and apply what we know with outside knowledge to come to conclusions. I'm sick of the structured, basic labs in school with lab questions that basically ask you to recap the lab. This is definitely a nice environment.
Hm..don't know what else to say. Can't wait for our boundaries to be extended - the trip to the campus bookstore was fun. Yay chlamydia! I'm pretty excited about the two final projects coming up, although they definitely require creative thinking. Playing with blood is still fun. PCR was very cool today, and the results from the Western blot were pretty exciting. Yeah. I think this is getting way too long. It's probably going to look intimidating on the blog site after I post it. This is what happens when I don't blog periodically. I tend to type too much. Okay bai.
Still missing a certain someone. But my friends here are very awesome :].
Dandelions make me laugh.
-Connie
A lot has happened over this past week/weekend. A lot of it has already been mentioned it in other blogs though - Knott's Berry Farm was freaking awesome! Silver Bullet, Xcelerator (0 to 80 mph in 2 seconds, awesomeness), Boomerang, and especially the PONY EXPRESS (yay for awkward positions). The weird train lady was hilarious. What else...the days here are so packed and full of activities/work that the weekend feels like such a long time ago. The beach was awesome (successful jumping pictures on the first try!, "tanning", a very REVEALING ten fingers), and the jello fight was as sticky and messy as I expected but very very fun (yay for getting a mouthful of jello thrown into my face). So that's basically the quickest recap possible of the weekend. Very very exciting. OH. Also, although almost everyone else has already mentioned this, cosmolympics was totally RIGGED, but it's still very awesome that we owned the relay race by at least a good 5 seconds. Oh right, the cake decorating contest was quite amusing (second place for piling random junk onto a cake ftw). I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life. Crack. Haha.
Alright, moving to the more academic stuff. The labs have been interesting, and I am really enjoying how the labs here give us access to some top-notch equipment and resources, and that the assignments/basic environment of the labs require us to think outside the box and apply what we know with outside knowledge to come to conclusions. I'm sick of the structured, basic labs in school with lab questions that basically ask you to recap the lab. This is definitely a nice environment.
Hm..don't know what else to say. Can't wait for our boundaries to be extended - the trip to the campus bookstore was fun. Yay chlamydia! I'm pretty excited about the two final projects coming up, although they definitely require creative thinking. Playing with blood is still fun. PCR was very cool today, and the results from the Western blot were pretty exciting. Yeah. I think this is getting way too long. It's probably going to look intimidating on the blog site after I post it. This is what happens when I don't blog periodically. I tend to type too much. Okay bai.
Still missing a certain someone. But my friends here are very awesome :].
Dandelions make me laugh.
-Connie
New Pictures
We visited the lab upstairs today, we needed to put our samples in a PCR machine. While up there I got some pretty great pictures.
Amanda
Amanda
PCR
Hey everyone!
Current situation: chilling at my lab bench with my lab mate Jorge, prepping for the biography on Pierre and Madame Curie that we're going to present in an hour. Ms. Green, one of our teacher fellows, is really cool. She's very laid back but also knows her stuff. We had a nice hour long advice session from her this morning.
We just put a microliter of knockout mouse DNA into a PCR eppindorf tube to prepare for PCR. This is some pretty intense stuff no lie. I found that our cluster is one of the more intellectual, challenging, but rewarding clusters out there. We were just told that us 18 kids were picked out of a good 100 applicants, talk about elite!
Anyways, were going to centrifuge our DNA now, so I'll catch you later..
Cluster 7 we gotta win the blogging award! If you're reading this, BLOG NOW
Ev
Current situation: chilling at my lab bench with my lab mate Jorge, prepping for the biography on Pierre and Madame Curie that we're going to present in an hour. Ms. Green, one of our teacher fellows, is really cool. She's very laid back but also knows her stuff. We had a nice hour long advice session from her this morning.
We just put a microliter of knockout mouse DNA into a PCR eppindorf tube to prepare for PCR. This is some pretty intense stuff no lie. I found that our cluster is one of the more intellectual, challenging, but rewarding clusters out there. We were just told that us 18 kids were picked out of a good 100 applicants, talk about elite!
Anyways, were going to centrifuge our DNA now, so I'll catch you later..
Cluster 7 we gotta win the blogging award! If you're reading this, BLOG NOW
Ev
Lab Time
The labs today and Monday were pretty cool- we got to denature proteins, load our samples onto electrophoresis, and use antibodies to isolate actin. I think tensegrity stuff will be pretty interesting as well.
The beach trip on Sunday was nice. I fell asleep for two hours on the sand but it was nice hanging out by the water. The coolest thing was seeing these two girls draw cartoons on the beach boardwalk with charcoal. They were drawing characters like Wall-E and Spongebob just from their memory, and a long strip of the boardwalk was just full of these awesome drawings. You don't get to see something like that often.
I hope everyone's enjoying the second week so far.
-Min Lee
The beach trip on Sunday was nice. I fell asleep for two hours on the sand but it was nice hanging out by the water. The coolest thing was seeing these two girls draw cartoons on the beach boardwalk with charcoal. They were drawing characters like Wall-E and Spongebob just from their memory, and a long strip of the boardwalk was just full of these awesome drawings. You don't get to see something like that often.
I hope everyone's enjoying the second week so far.
-Min Lee
I'll Make A Man out of You
=D I'm happy I can come up with essay ideas right on the spot.
We watched Anchorman last night. It was funny/stupid comedy. Most of the guys have seen it. Girls... nah.
Guys are really strong btw. Dylan has no martial arts skills but is trained in the art of sibling wrestling so he's just big and strong. Lena's really smart at kung-fu. Isaac (sp?) is experienced. lol... my arms feel sore.
Ta.
We watched Anchorman last night. It was funny/stupid comedy. Most of the guys have seen it. Girls... nah.
Guys are really strong btw. Dylan has no martial arts skills but is trained in the art of sibling wrestling so he's just big and strong. Lena's really smart at kung-fu. Isaac (sp?) is experienced. lol... my arms feel sore.
Ta.
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